Nearly synchronous climate change in the Northern Hemisphere during the last glacial termination

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6639, 1997, Pages 263-265

  Benson, Larry ^a   Burdett, James ^b   Lund, Steve ^c   Kashgarian, Michaela ^d   Mensing, Scott ^e  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CARBON; CARBON 14; CARBONIC ACID; ICE; OXYGEN 18; THORIUM; URANIUM;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DEGLACIATION; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LAST GLACIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COOLING; LAKE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORTH AMERICA; OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030811497     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40838     Document Type: Article

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